{"id":706445,"date":"2022-06-18T19:30:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T19:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrionline.org\/?p=11825"},"modified":"2022-06-18T19:30:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T19:30:43","slug":"human-rights-initiative-of-north-texas-hri-statement-on-announcement-to-expand-asylum-access-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/06\/18\/human-rights-initiative-of-north-texas-hri-statement-on-announcement-to-expand-asylum-access-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Initiative of North Texas (HRI) Statement on Announcement to Expand Asylum Access"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PRESS STATEMENT\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Contact: Kali Cohn<\/div>\n
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 972-638-7438<\/div>\n
June 18, 2021\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 kcohn@hrionline.org<\/div>\n
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On June 16, 2021, Attorney General Merrick Garland reversed<\/a>\u00a0two Trump Administration immigration decisions that unjustly limited access to asylum for people fleeing domestic and gang violence in their home countries. The legally flawed decisions,\u00a0Matter of A-B-\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Matter of L-E-A-<\/i>, caused confusion that ultimately resulted in high denial rates for people entitled to protection from persecution.<\/div>\n
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“We applaud these efforts to reopen doors that were effectively shut to asylum seekers fleeing domestic and gang violence,” said Emily Heger, Equal Justice Works Legal Fellow, Sponsored by AT&T and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, who specializes in gender-based asylum claims. “Today, we celebrate with our clients who had lost a lot of hope over the last four years. As of today, they again have a fighting chance to secure refuge in the U.S.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For the past 20 years, Human Rights Initiative of North Texas has provided legal and critical social services for immigrant survivors of human rights abuses from all over the world. For more information, visit\u00a0<\/span>www.hrionline.org<\/a><\/span>.
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The post Human Rights Initiative of North Texas (HRI) Statement on Announcement to Expand Asylum Access<\/a> appeared first on Human Rights Initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":491,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706446,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706445\/revisions\/706446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}